Hey, all. This post is going to be the first in what I hope are a series of blog posts in which I review the comics/magazines I end up getting every week. Ill try to avoid spoilers for those reading who havent yet read what Im reviewing, but I generally cant guarantee that.
Soto start off
Doctor Who Magazine #452: Ah, the wonders of the publishing world. Being a UK publication, the issue takes at least a month to be published there before it gets published over here. Meaning that this issue, published in the UK prior to the airing of the episodes, actually gets published over here a month after theyve aired. (Im tempted to make a wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey joke, but I think Ill refrain.) In any case, the big story this issue (aside from previews of The Power of Three and The Angels Take Manhattan) is an interview with Jenna-Louise Coleman, which I really havent had time to read through, yet, the usual comic strip (one Im, sadly, not interested in), The Seeds of Doom in Fact of Fiction and Planet of Giants in the DWM review.
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #6: Ive been enjoying this mini so far (Im a sucker for crossovers in general, even when theyre not particularly good. That explains why I have a copy of New Avengers/Transformers, quite possibly one of the top five worst TF comics ever published), and Ive got to say that this issue really delivers on the bacon. I mean, when I saw the cover for #7, I imagined that what occurs in this issue would happen, and I was right. After finding things rather predictable over the course of the last two or so issues, I can honestly say that I have no idea where things are going to go from here.
Star Wars: Agent of the Empire Iron Eclipse TPB: James Bond meets Star Wars? Well, its certainly a different outlook for the franchise, but one I particularly enjoyed reading (this is one I waited to get in TPB form; not collecting singles unless its something Im really interested in). Gotta wonder if it was a marketing decision to release the trade so close to the release of the new James Bond movie, though.
Star Wars: Dark Times Out of the Wilderness TPB: I dont think Im liking Dark Times as much as I though I would. This arc, along with Blue Harvest, werent really all that interesting to me. Maybe its because, in real world terms, enough time has moved on since Episode III that reading events that take place a few months afterward arent really as interesting as events which take place further down the timeline and closer to the Original Trilogy. Still, Ill probably give the next arc a glance.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic War TPB: I like the previous Knights of the Old Republic comic series. I like the games. I like the previous Star Wars material published earlier that takes place in the general time frame. But for some reason, I find myself not particularly liking this. Maybe its because the last arc (Demon) felt like a natural conclusion to the storyline that any attempt to follow on would feel too much like kicking a dead horse (something, sadly, that the publishers of Star Wars fiction never really learned either, what with their taking the semi-perfect end to the Skywaler/Solo story that was the New Jedi Order and spending nearly ten years flushing it down the hole to ever decreasing diminishing returns).
Star Wars Insider #137: Nothing particularly interesting in this issue, aside from an interview with Mark Hamill and one with Pablo Hidalgo regarding The Essential Readers Companion.
Soto start off
Doctor Who Magazine #452: Ah, the wonders of the publishing world. Being a UK publication, the issue takes at least a month to be published there before it gets published over here. Meaning that this issue, published in the UK prior to the airing of the episodes, actually gets published over here a month after theyve aired. (Im tempted to make a wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey joke, but I think Ill refrain.) In any case, the big story this issue (aside from previews of The Power of Three and The Angels Take Manhattan) is an interview with Jenna-Louise Coleman, which I really havent had time to read through, yet, the usual comic strip (one Im, sadly, not interested in), The Seeds of Doom in Fact of Fiction and Planet of Giants in the DWM review.
Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #6: Ive been enjoying this mini so far (Im a sucker for crossovers in general, even when theyre not particularly good. That explains why I have a copy of New Avengers/Transformers, quite possibly one of the top five worst TF comics ever published), and Ive got to say that this issue really delivers on the bacon. I mean, when I saw the cover for #7, I imagined that what occurs in this issue would happen, and I was right. After finding things rather predictable over the course of the last two or so issues, I can honestly say that I have no idea where things are going to go from here.
Star Wars: Agent of the Empire Iron Eclipse TPB: James Bond meets Star Wars? Well, its certainly a different outlook for the franchise, but one I particularly enjoyed reading (this is one I waited to get in TPB form; not collecting singles unless its something Im really interested in). Gotta wonder if it was a marketing decision to release the trade so close to the release of the new James Bond movie, though.
Star Wars: Dark Times Out of the Wilderness TPB: I dont think Im liking Dark Times as much as I though I would. This arc, along with Blue Harvest, werent really all that interesting to me. Maybe its because, in real world terms, enough time has moved on since Episode III that reading events that take place a few months afterward arent really as interesting as events which take place further down the timeline and closer to the Original Trilogy. Still, Ill probably give the next arc a glance.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic War TPB: I like the previous Knights of the Old Republic comic series. I like the games. I like the previous Star Wars material published earlier that takes place in the general time frame. But for some reason, I find myself not particularly liking this. Maybe its because the last arc (Demon) felt like a natural conclusion to the storyline that any attempt to follow on would feel too much like kicking a dead horse (something, sadly, that the publishers of Star Wars fiction never really learned either, what with their taking the semi-perfect end to the Skywaler/Solo story that was the New Jedi Order and spending nearly ten years flushing it down the hole to ever decreasing diminishing returns).
Star Wars Insider #137: Nothing particularly interesting in this issue, aside from an interview with Mark Hamill and one with Pablo Hidalgo regarding The Essential Readers Companion.